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    The Space Character Separates Command Line Arguments
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The system interprets the space character as a separator
for command line arguments. If you want <strong>Drink Hot Java</strong> to be
interpreted as a single argument, you would join them with double quotes (which
the system consumes). On UNIX, you would run it like this:
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% <strong>java Echo "Drink Hot Java"</strong>
Drink Hot Java
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